“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”

“You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.”

“Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.”

“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?”

“You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself.”

“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.”

“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”

“Life is a jest;
Take the delight of it.
Laughter is best;
Sing through the night of it.
Swiftly the tear
And the hurt and the ache of it
Find us down here;
Life must be what we make of it.”

“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”

“He (Saddam) had this huge war going on, and you have to act firmly when you have an assassination attempt.”